You may wanna wait just a little longer for better overclocking...here read this,http://www.fudzilla....to-launch-may-8

That's exactly why I'm holding out on swapping my P67 B2 board. At this point, I would recommend anybody else with a B2 board to do the same.

Does give one pause for thought ...More so if the ETA is confirmed from other sources.

If I kept waiting for new tech I'd never have a new rig :)There's always going to be something better.

If I kept waiting for new tech I'd never have a new rig :)There's always going to be something better.

Me too! As far as revolutionary steps go, this isn't. How much more over 5GHz at 1.425v should it be? Would having integrated graphics in the GPU make a difference in FSX? Should you wait? Stay tuned for the next 6 months to find out! Whatever you do, don't buy anthing until you know for absolutely certain whether or not it was worth waiting for! Better not to fly with new equipment at all, than to risk flying at only 45 FPS for 6 months with 1 or 2 possibly missing FPS. B) Kind regards,

Me too! As far as revolutionary steps go, this isn't. How much more over 5GHz at 1.425v should it be? Would having integrated graphics in the GPU make a difference in FSX? Should you wait? Stay tuned for the next 6 months to find out! Whatever you do, don't buy anthing until you know for absolutely certain whether or not it was worth waiting for! Better not to fly with new equipment at all, than to risk flying at only 45 FPS for 6 months with 1 or 2 possibly missing FPS. B) Kind regards,

I agree on some of what you have said Stephen but do you remember some of my old post about new hardware in the Orbx forums under the now deceaste hardware talk , me (and this is only for me) don't jump on anything just released as far as hardware until I make sure there is no major bugs in it, look at the GTX 590 and some of the problems they are having with it or the P67 when they came out.I built my X58 980X set up after I knew everything was bugs free as much as possible, the other problems with new mobo is the bios, they are not mature enough when the mobo is release.I am realy tempted to get the Ivy Bridge when release buy I think I'll wait 2 > 3 month after they release it to see how bugs free they are before I jump.

I agree with Stephen. Almost everything is in the CPU now so I can't see how a chipset would make a (significant) difference in OC. SSD cache is the only thing that might be interesting. I don't care for the IGP at all either

I agree with Stephen. Almost everything is in the CPU now so I can't see how a chipset would make a (significant) difference in OC. SSD cache is the only thing that might be interesting. I don't care for the IGP at all either

You are right but new changes are comming for FSX (it's obvious for Flight), I will not be surprise to see Aces releasing a patch for FSX so we can use SLI as showed here in this thread http://forum.avsim.net/topic/332436-fsx-driver-27051-sli-ready/, if so the CPU will not be as important as before and if on the top of it we can use more than 4 core it will be a bonus from Aces to us FSX user... There is no way Nvidia Inspector would show both Flight and FSX in the SLI tab if only Flight was to be made to use this feature.

You are right but new changes are comming for FSX (it's obvious for Flight), I will not be surprise to see Aces releasing a patch for FSX so we can use SLI as showed here in this thread http://forum.avsim.net/topic/332436-fsx-driver-27051-sli-ready/, if so the CPU will not be as important as before and if on the top of it we can use more than 4 core it will be a bonus from Aces to us FSX user... There is no way Nvidia Inspector would show both Flight and FSX in the SLI tab if only Flight was to be made to use this feature.

Alain, ACES is dead. MS releasing a patch for FSX? That is wild and extremely unlikely speculation that is so far out as to be compared to having an eclipse of the sun and moon at the same time! Microsoft is in the business of introducing a new Flight Sim, not rectifying shortcomings in a 5 year old piece of competing obsolete software. They want us to switch to MS Flight when it comes out, not give an excuse for staying with FSX!Whatever is to be in the flight sim cards, the possibility of MS fixing FSX outside of MS Flight will be completely absent IMHO. I have to hand it to you though Alain, you do think outside the box, even if it is on the far side of reality. :Big Grin: Kind regards,

Alain, ACES is dead. MS releasing a patch for FSX? That is wild and extremely unlikely speculation that is so far out as to be compared to having an eclipse of the sun and moon at the same time! Microsoft is in the business of introducing a new Flight Sim, not rectifying shortcomings in a 5 year old piece of competing obsolete software. They want us to switch to MS Flight when it comes out, not give an excuse for staying with FSX!Whatever is to be in the flight sim cards, the possibility of MS fixing FSX outside of MS Flight will be completely absent IMHO. I have to hand it to you though Alain, you do think outside the box, even if it is on the far side of reality. :Big Grin: Kind regards,

Don't you like that kind of stuff Stephen, sit tight cause I can't tell you everything but you are right FSX will not be fixed 100% outside Flight but MS will trow a little something for FSX, can SLI be one of them as you can see it in the Nvidia Inspector, no DX10 for FSX because they are keeping it for Flight (FSX as it was suppose to be) as you can also see it in the Nvidia Inspector conterol panel.How can an unreleased game find it's way to the Nvidia Inspector SLI compatibility section with FSX in two different category....hummmm....think about it just for a sec. why not having both in the (dx10) section, by the way there was not compatibility section in the old Nvidia Inspector version. Now before you get on me about the NDA agreement just think of wekeleaks, there is always somebody unhappy about something somewhere.....

How would SLI help FSX anyway Alain? FSX is CPU limited. More than a patch it would need to be a whole new engine. Not going to happen

ETA confirmed:http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Z68-Chipset-to-Launch-on-May-8-194075.shtml

How would SLI help FSX anyway Alain? FSX is CPU limited. More than a patch it would need to be a whole new engine. Not going to happen

It is now CPU limited, do you remember SP1 and SP2, they did not need a new engine, and you are right about a new engine NOT going to happen with FSX or Flight for that matter.Here is something I got from somebody else...Quote" So lets clear some doubts: flight will have sli support because the developer added that feature in the engine, thats beyond any doubts as you already realized.<br itxtNodeId="846"><br itxtNodeId="845">Since its a remake youre assuming or expecting that the original game can work in sli as well, but thats not how it works.<br itxtNodeId="844"><br itxtNodeId="843">The developer in order to make a sli enabled game needs to implement such technology in their game, so if you want to use sli in older titles the developer needs to patch the game and then notify nvidia, which creates a sli bits for it and adds a profile in the next driver release.<br itxtNodeId="842"><br itxtNodeId="841">Mind you, you can attempt to force sli in older titles by either using the new Flight sli bit (if the engine is similar) or by using another bit, but it may not work at all (mostly it will likely happen). Sli isnt a technology that works with everything, we still dream of something like that really.<br itxtNodeId="840">Point is that before the driver supports a game in sli there should be an official support by the developer.<br itxtNodeId="839">Hope it helps now. end of quote.....To answer your question about SLI MS will have to send some work load to the GPU.....SP3.

Makes no sense. MS is developing Flight. Wasting resources in the old version just to keep people from upgrading makes no sense at all from a business standpoint. And the SP3 would need to be a major engine overhaul to turn FSX into a GPU bound game.Dream on Alain

They are already doing a major engine overhaul, do you really think that Flight will use a brand new engine out of the box....nop...so some of the improvement that they are doing to the FSX engine to make it Fight can be package and released as a patch for FSX.As i explained earlier they will not fix it 100% for FSX.